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Music in Life
Music varies from one society to another. A means of communication, the rules that govern
it and the environment in which it is produced are specific to each society.
Our personal nature and the knowledge we acquire from our surroundings determine our interest
in this art form. These cultural values influence our perception and understanding of music,
and allow us to decode the symbolic messages it can convey and to derive a certain pleasure
from listening to it.
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Miley Cyrus' Controversial Photos Spark Fierce Debate Among Fans, Parents |
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You'd have to be living under a large gray blanket for the past few days not to hear about Miley Cyrus' photo spread for next month's Vanity Fair,
shot by the renowned Annie Leibovitz. But despite Cyrus' quick apology,
the impact of MileyGate is still being felt as hoards of teens and
parents alike have been forced to consider the rights and wrongs of the
15-year-old "Hannah Montana" star's risqué photos.
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Coldplay Indulges Experimentation On Fourth Album |
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| Coldplay lets its creative flag fly on its fourth studio album, "Viva
La Vida or Death and All His Friends," due June 17 via Capitol. "We're
still obsessed with making songs that can be sung to the rafters,"
frontman Chris Martin says. "We just wanted to present them
differently."
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Alicia Keys: Unlocked |
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In order to find herself, she had to leave the music industry, take a
trip down the Nile and learn how to tear down the walls she’d spent
most of her life building.
It's early Friday evening in Copenhagen and Alicia Keys is about to
emit some deeply bizarre sounds. These trills and jabbers will loosen
her vocal cords, exercise her diaphragm and guard against any
accidentally bizarre sounds when she takes the stage at the Falconer
Salen, an ultramodern concert hall carved into a boxy luxury hotel. Her
valet, a skinny guy named Francis, enters her dressing room, adjusts
the height of an electric Yamaha keyboard, then disappears to get his
boss some potato-spinach soup. The decor suggests a mail-order
catalogue called Diva Comfort Depot:
Floral-printed scarves enshroud floor lamps; scented candles glow atop
ottomans draped with light-purple fabric; dainty white ramekins cradle
dried fruits; and in the corner, a humidifier puffs out little steam
clouds of calm. The tableau is a portable monument to mood. On tour, every night, this is where Keys goes “to get my head right.”
Which is why she’s kicking Blender out. “You,” she says bluntly, “need to leave now.”
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In The Studio: Franz Ferdinand |
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| Franz Ferdinand go for a “dry sound” à la “’70s Ike and Tina records” for their third album.
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Dear Superstar: Stephen Malkmus |
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| The frontman of ’90s indie-rock heroes Pavement on feuding with Billy
Corgan, spending time in the clink and what it would take to get his
old band back together.
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Almost Famous: The Teenagers |
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Meet the horniest band in indie rock. The Teenagers—a Paris-born,
London-based trio—have conquered the blogosphere with their libidinous
(yet oddly sweet) synth-pop ballads. “Starlett Johansson” is about
bagging a certain American movie star,” says guitarist Dorian Dumont:
“I’m lucky my mom does not speak English.”
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Taylor Swift: Little Miss Perfect |
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| Sorry, TMZ: Music’s newest superstar is 18, writes her own songs,
hasn't kissed a boy in two years and still lives, happily, with her mom
and dad.
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, March 19 @ 18:39:06 UTC (78 reads)
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20 Biggest record company screwups ever |
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They Never Even Recouped Their Aqua Net Expenses
#20 As grunge dawns, one label bets on hair metal
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1989, with hair metal reaching its zenith, the A&R department at
MCA Records finally decided to get in on the act—by tossing a rumored
$1 million at L.A. band Pretty Boy Floyd, who at the time had played
only eight shows. The band’s debut, Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz, peaked at No. 130 on the Billboard charts,
and the Floyd blew another mil or so of MCA’s money before the label
finally dropped them in 1991 … right around the time the suits blew a
chance to sign a fledgling Seattle outfit called Nirvana.
Unintended consequence Around 1992, the Sunset Strip pizza-delivery scene gets a fresh infusion of talent.
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